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AU M01 EX CHWART PICTURE CARD,

No. 286,642. Patented Oct. 16, 1883.

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ATTORN WITNESSES UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

PICTURE-CARD.

SPECIFICATION forming;- part of Letters Patent No. 2i6,642, (atedOctober 16. 188",

.To (all whom, {I may (once/'11 lie it known that I, (Ilium-1s SeHwAhlZ,of .llrooklyn. in the eounty of Kings and State otk'ew .York. haveinvented eertain new and useful improvements in liclure tards of whichthe following is a speeilieation.

This invention lnlsrell-renee toan improved pieture-eard for advertisingand other purposes; and it Consists ot' a picture-eard made of onecontinuous blank and folded into two or more set-thins, of whieh onesection forms the baek part or stay, and the seeond seetion the front.whieh is perlorat d. so that its eutont portions are brought out inrelief against: the stay or lnukground. The remaining seetions form theConnect ion between the perfo rated front and the stay.

In theaecompanying drawingsligurei represents a perspective View of myimproved pieture-eard. Fig. 2 is a yertieal transverse seetion ol' thesame: Fig. I a plan, showing the blank from which the card is made; andFigs. 4 and 5 are perspeetiye views of modified eonst ruct'ions.

Similar letters of ref'erenee indieate corresponding parts.

Hy improved picture-card is made of oneeontinuousblankot'snitalilecard-pa ier,whieh blank is divided by foldsor creases, so as to form two main parts, namely: a back, part or stayand a main or front part, B. lhe bout 1; is pertorated or eut out insuitable designs, whieh are brought out in relief when the front is setup against the baek part or stay, which latter forms the baekground ot'the picture. The front llisarrangedat' a suitable inclination to theback A, and conneeted thereto either by a bottom section, that extendsin upwardly-inchned position from the lower edge ofthe front part, ll.to the baek part, A, asin l igs. 1 and 5, or by a top section, (I, as inFig. 4 The eonnectingseetion U is locked by any suitable deriee to theback part, A, so that the proper stability of the entire picture-card isobtained when the same is set up. The front part is so perforated as torepresent a picture, through the open parts of which the rear part, A,and the inclined connecting part (1 may be seen. The inner Surface ofthe back part, A, and of the inelined part is printed in suitabledesigns and colors. so as to eonipleinent thcpieture ot' the front parkll. 'lhe inelined part t may also be ]|i'n\'illt'(l with partly entontand bentup portions t", which serye as aecessories to 55 the front partofthe pieture, .sothat the whole eard forms a picture withaperspeetiyebackground that ean be brought out in a large number ofdifferent elegant designs. lhe entire picture is made of one continuousblank as shown in Fig. 2'. from which theopen parts are ent out bysuitable dies, and which may be embossed in the usual well-known manner.so that, for instance a raised borderis formed around the picture ol'thefront part. whereby the appearanee ot' the card iseonsiderablyincreased.

llaring thusdesrriln-d my invention, I claim asnewanddesiretoseeure byLetters Patent- .1. As a new arliele ot' inauiuliu-ture, a pietureeardmade of one continuous blank di vided by l'olds or creases into two ormore parts, the front part of which is pertbrated and brought out inrelief against the back part or stay which forms the baekground for 7the design or picture of the front part sul stantially as set forth.

2 As a new artiele of manufacture, a pieture-eard inadeol' onecontinuous blank di \ided by folds or creases into a front part, whichis perforated and brought out in relief. a back part whieh forms thebackground for the design or pieture otthe front part, and a eonneetingpart which unites the back and front parts substantially as deseribed.

I As a new article of nianniaeture, a pie ture-eard made of onecontinuous blank divided by folds or creases into a front part, which isperforated and brought out in relief against the baekpart, a back partwhieh forms the background for the design or picture of the front part,and a connecting part that is upwardly inclined from the lower edge ofthe front part to thebaek part, and provided with Serrated parts inrelief which serve as aeeessoriesto the picture of the front part,substan tially as described.

4. As a new article otinanut'aeture, a pieture-eard eonsisting of oneeontinuous blank divided by folds or creases into a front part,

